In Richard Adams’s Watership Down, a story about rabbits leaving their home in search of a new one, the protagonists come across a particularly mysterious warren. The rabbits residing in the warren are strange creatures who share a common secret. They are well fed and protected by a human who leaves them food and kills their predators. But there is something not quite right with these rabbits.
My dad talked me into reading that book in the 1970s, I do remember not quite understanding all of its messages because I was young at the time, early teens. I very much need to revisit it, I think! Another interesting one my dad “made me” read was, Stranger in a Strange Land. I think he was trying to tell me something without actually telling me! I do miss his wisdom, especially now.
Rabbits in the wild use different tactic: if they fear a predator lurking outside the burrow, they will sometimes kick a baby rabbit or an old one out, to see if the really is a predator there.
For the ones doing the kicking, it's a win-win solution.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to which ideology that matches.
My dad talked me into reading that book in the 1970s, I do remember not quite understanding all of its messages because I was young at the time, early teens. I very much need to revisit it, I think! Another interesting one my dad “made me” read was, Stranger in a Strange Land. I think he was trying to tell me something without actually telling me! I do miss his wisdom, especially now.
Rabbits in the wild use different tactic: if they fear a predator lurking outside the burrow, they will sometimes kick a baby rabbit or an old one out, to see if the really is a predator there.
For the ones doing the kicking, it's a win-win solution.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to which ideology that matches.
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